“Spiderman, Spiderman, Does whatever a spider can. Spins a web, any size, Catches thieves just like flies. Look Out! Here comes the Spiderman.” Theme song to Spiderman By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com In this case, the feds spun a web to capture a German man in a probe dubbed “Operation Spiderman.” Late last week, special agents…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — A 3 1/2 month operation involving the nation’s “largest ever” crackdown on financial fraud, has resulted in the arrest of hundreds of people who swindled investors out of billions of dollars, the Justice Department announced Monday. Dubbed “Operation Broken Trust”, authorities said they have taken criminal action against 343…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some of his constituents have called him a nut, so perhaps the latest act of federal defendant Rod Blagojevich makes sense…or at least some cents. Blagojevich joins Snooki, comic Lewis Black, and “Keyboard Cat” as a pitchman in the Wonderful Pistachios’s “Get Crackin’” ad campaign, the Chicago Reader reports. Meanwhile, the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement manipulated the system and did highly questionable things to meet deportation goals, the Center for Investigative Reporting reported in the Washington Post. The news organization reported that ICE included in its stats more than 19,000 immigrants who exited the U.S. the previous year….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A FBI employee in San Francisco is in big trouble as a result of financial statement she made, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The paper reported that Rachelle Thomas-Zuill, 39, who conducted background investigations on FBI agents for security clearances in San Francisco, was charged in court documents in San Jose…
